Jim Higgins (British politician)
Jim Higgins (2 December 1930 – 13 October 2002) was a British
Biography
Born into a working-class family in Harrow, London, Higgins joined the Young Communist League at 14. Age eighteen, he was apprenticed to the Post Office as a telecommunications engineer.[1]
After
By the 1960s, Higgins was a POEU branch secretary and was elected to the union's national executive, but he gave up his union work to become IS's full-time national secretary in the early 1970s. In a burst of internal quarrels in the period 1973-76 he left the organisation. He was a founder member of the Workers League, but this organisation soon broke apart. Instead, he built a new life as a journalist, later moving into magazine design. He remained active as a writer and speaker at left wing meetings up until his death and in 1997 published a memoir, More Years for the Locust.[1]
Papers left by Higgins and Al Richardson have been deposited with Senate House Library, University of London.[2]
Selected publications
- Lenin (Socialist Worker pamphlet) April 1970
- More Years for the Locust, IS Group, London, 1997
References
- ^ a b c Roger Protz (21 October 2002). "Jim Higgins: Journalist and revolutionary socialist". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ Al Richardson / Jim Higgins papers, University of London
External links
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